Re: [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-31 Thread Sean DALY
Sugar Labs suffers from OLPC's lack of interest in press communications and in combating misperceptions (in particular the wholly inaccurate meme that XO-1s are delivered with Windows). Although we manage to get mostly positive coverage for Sugar, it's two steps forward, one step back when OLPC

Re: [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
I am in personal contact with Stallman (rms) on this. Who else here knows him? We have met several times at computing events, and discussed other questions in e-mail. I was a factor in his choice of the XO as his main computer, which unfortunately lasted only a short time, because he was unaware

[IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-28 Thread Bill Kerr
n Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: === Sugar Digest === 4. The recent FSF campaign condemning the use of Windows 7 in education (See http://windows7sins.org/) imputes OLPC in complicity with Microsoft. It is disappointing that the FSF is not making any

Re: [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 28.08.2009, at 11:33, Bill Kerr wrote: n Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: === Sugar Digest === 4. The recent FSF campaign condemning the use of Windows 7 in education (See http://windows7sins.org/) imputes OLPC in complicity with Microsoft. It

Re: [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-28 Thread Luke Faraone
On 28/ago/2009, at 11.48, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: It's tragic how they undermine their allies' efforts in their blind zealousness. Worse than that, it's complete FUD. This is something you'd expect from MSFT, but not the FSF. The number of XOs shipped with Windows is

Re: [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-28 Thread Bill Kerr
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote: On 28.08.2009, at 11:33, Bill Kerr wrote: n Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: === Sugar Digest === 4. The recent FSF campaign condemning the use of Windows 7 in

Re: [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-28 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 14:08, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 28.08.2009, at 11:33, Bill Kerr wrote: n Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: === Sugar Digest ===